a review by Tom Piper
You have a delightful picture, or valuable text that needs to be preserved, so you want to print it . . . but, how and where? iOS device printing still seems more difficult than it should be, particularly when you are away from home. Yet, there is hope with some new apps.
Printer Pro is the application that lets you print wirelessly from the iPad or iPhone. It can print directly to many Wi-Fi printers, and to any printer attached to your Mac or PC via helper application installed on your computer. It broadens your opportunity to get a paper product from your iOS device.
The first step is to “Add printer” to your list (this allows you to select any printer it can see on your Wi-Fi network, or send it to networked computers, or your Dropbox). It then prints out a test page to verify (even allows for calibration of image). Next is displayed all the possible sources of documents like iDisk, Dropbox, Clipboard, Photos, Documents and more, which allows you to retrieve anything you want to print.
Once installed, Printer Pro also appears in the "Open In..." list on your device. This lets you print documents from Mail, Safari, ReaddleDocs and many other applications on your iPad that supports this function, as well as many popular online storages including Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk, GoogleDocs. Its just a matter of a few taps to download your file and send it to the printer.
To print a web page, just change "http" to "phttp" in the address bar in Safari and tap Go. The page will immediately be opened in the Printer Pro with print button right above your finger. You can print web-based documents as well using this approach. I’ve even printed to the office printers of my auto dealership with a simple select-and-print procedure.
Printer Pro is available at the App Store for either $4.99 (iPhone) or $6.99 (iPad), and you can learn more from http://readdle.com/products/printer_pro_ipad/ (change “ipad” to “iphone” in the URL to get the other version). Get the free helper application for your computer to print more types of documents and with better quality. You can download it at support.readdle.com/ppd. All in all, this advanced printer app works quite well.
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